Report: Apple Planning Flash-Based MacBook

CNBC is apparently reporting that Apple (AAPL) plans to announce a flash-memory based MacBook Pro laptop. (This according to TheFlyOnTheWall.com; I did not hear the report, so I do not have any details.) The idea of Apple offering a computer with a flash-based solid state drive instead of a hard drive has the Street buzzing about what it might mean for the NAND memory chip companies. Ergo, SanDisk (SNDK) is up $1.33 or 3.5% at $39.28; Micron (MU) is up 26 cents or 2.9% at $9.21.

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[Stefan Wyler]

More details from the CNBC report:

-It will be priced at $1500
-It will be 50% thinner

-3G iPhone will be out in June 2008
-iPod touch production ramped up to 5.1m for the quarter

Apple did not comment on the rumors (as always).

[jcrash]

SNDK been oversold for too long. Up it goes, baby!